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291 articles available in total starting from 21/03/2017. Last article published on 09/04/2024.

Review: Life and Other Problems

Review: Life and Other Problems

Max Kestner’s film asks just one good question: what would it be like to be a spruce? Everything else poses as cerebral, while in fact it’s simply exhausting  

18/03 | CPH:DOX 2024

Marek Kozakiewicz • Director of We Are Perfect

Interview: Marek Kozakiewicz • Director of We Are Perfect

“What surprised me was the openness and maturity that these young people had when they were talking about themselves”

The helmer breaks down his tender and honest film about young people who know who they are, yet struggle to feel accepted by their families and the world  

11/03 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2024

Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border pockets the Polish Eagle for Best Film

Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border pockets the Polish Eagle for Best Film

The Polish filmmaker also received a Lifetime Achievement Award during an evening dominated by Paweł Maślona’s Scarborn, which scooped six prizes  

05/03 | Festivals | Awards | Poland

Review: Who by Fire

Review: Who by Fire

BERLINALE 2024: In Philippe Lesage’s Generation-awarded film, hell may be other people, but the scariest demons lurk inside our own hearts and minds  

29/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham  • Directors of No Other Land

Interview: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham • Directors of No Other Land

“None of us have any experience with documentaries, so we just decided to go on this journey together as part of our activism”

Two of the four-strong team of directors explain why they made a project documenting the forced resettlement of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank  

28/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: Treasure

Review: Treasure

BERLINALE 2024: Julia von Heinz’s post-Holocaust story, set in early-1990s Poland, is a noble yet botched attempt at a family tragicomedy  

27/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Berlinale Special

Review: Rising up at Night

Review: Rising up at Night

BERLINALE 2024: The new offering from Nelson Makengo attempts to convey what it’s like to live in a constantly dark and flooded Kinshasa  

26/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

BERLINALE 2024: The efforts to live a relatively normal life amidst the unstable realities of Lebanon are at the heart of the socially engaged documentary by Myriam El Hajj  

26/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

Interview: Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

“I was inside the events and living through them with my characters”

BERLINALE 2024: The director breaks down her portrait of the hardships that Lebanese society has gone through over the last few years  

22/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: Foreign Tongue

Review: Foreign Tongue

BERLINALE 2024: Young actresses Lilith Grasmug and Josefa Heinsius are the beating heart of this coming-of-age drama by Claire Burger, revolving around a language exchange trip to Germany  

21/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

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